The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Scholars such as Dierk Lange attribute the decline of ancient Ghana to numerous unrelated factors, only one of which can be likely attributable to internal dynastic struggles that were instigated by Almalvorid influence and Islamic pressures, but devoid of any military conversion and conquest.

Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

Other Scholars, such as Elizabeth Dunn and Julia Elyachar have claimed that neoliberalism requires and creates its own form of governmentality.

Scholars such as J. N. Mohanty, Claire Ortiz Hill, and Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, among others, have argued that Husserl's so-called change from psychologism to Platonism came about independently of Frege's review.

Scholars such as Fannie Ratchford and Derek Roper have attempted to piece together a Gondal storyline and chronology from these poems.

Scholars such as Goswin König and A. C. Bradley have estimated approximate dates of undated works of Shakespeare by studying the frequency of enjambment.

Scholars such as D. A. Carson, Douglas J. Moo, and Craig Blomberg, often agree with Robinson.

Scholars discuss historiography topically – such as the " historiography of Catholicism ", the " historiography of early Islam ", or the " historiography of China " – as well as specific approaches and genres, such as political history and social history.

Tasmanian State League football features five clubs from Hobart, and other leagues such as Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association are also played each Winter.

Scholars of Islam, such as Sheikh al-Islam Imam Malik, and Imam Shafi amongst others, ruled that Islam disallowed homosexual activity and ordained capital punishment for a person guilty of it.

Scholars such as Claudia Setzer have noted the differences between the rationale for the death of John the Baptist presented by Josephus, and the theological variations ( e. g. whether immersion in water can result in the forgiveness of sins, etc.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

Scholars such as Rosalind Clark hold that the names are unrelated, the Welsh " Morgan " ( Wales being the source of Arthurian legend ) being derived from root words associated with the sea, while the Irish " Morrígan " has its roots either in a word for " terror " or a word for " greatness ".

Scholars such as Hans Conzelmann and 20th century theologian John Knox dispute the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles .< ref >

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

Scholars such as Francis Bacon developed the study of " scientific rhetoric.

Scholars such as Helck think that the context was meant to be serious.

Scholars in the late 19th and early 20th century explored the generations of families the authors considered disreputable, such as the The Jukes family and the The Kallikak Family ( both were pseudonyms for real families ).

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

Scholars disagree about the various, too often contradictory, accounts of his life given in sources from his era of history, such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, and the Heimskringla, a 13th-century work by Icelandic author Snorri Sturluson.

Scholars such as Michel Graulich ( 2002 ) and Susan D. Gillespie ( 1989 ) maintain that the difficulties in salvaging actual historic data from the Aztec accounts of Toltec history are too great to overcome.

Critics, such as the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society ( TJHS ) Scholars Commission ( 2001 ), have argued against the TJF report and reached different conclusions about the DNA tests.

* Scholars Commission Report, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001

Scholars have traditionally understood the Gospel of Thomas as a Gnostic text because it was found amongst other gnostic texts, it was understood as being prone to a Gnostic interpretation by the early Church, and the emphasis on knowledge as the key to salvation, particularly in Saying 1.

* Thomas Ken-Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College

Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.

Scholars such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas interpreted and systematized Aristotle's works in accordance with Christian theology.

Scholars detect from the Greek that its original was written in Syriac, which places the Acts of Thomas in Syria.

Scholars and philanthropists The historians Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin and Charles Thomas were also born in Redruth, and the Victorian philanthropist John Passmore Edwards was born in the neighbouring village of Blackwater.

While he declined to participate in the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, Harvard awarded honorary degrees to Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein in 1935.

Scholars such as Gordon Wood describe how Americans were caught up in the Revolutionary fervor and excitement of creating governments, societies, a new nation on the face of the earth by rational choice as Thomas Paine declared in Common Sense.

Scholars disagree whether the original language of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was Greek or Syriac, based on the finding or lack of badly-translated Greek or Syriac vocabulary or idiom.

Scholars of the play think that it was originally written by playwrights Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and some years later heavily revised by another team of playwrights, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, and William Shakespeare.

Scholars differ over how much of the book is from Jeremiah himself and how much from later disciples, but the French scholar Thomas Romer has recently identified two Deuteronomistic " redactions " ( editings ) of the book of Jeremiah some time before the end of the Exile ( pre-539 BCE ) – a process which also involved the prophetic books of Amos and Hosea.

Her chief works in prose and verse are: The History of Saint Dominic ( 1857 ; enlarged edition, 1891 ); The Life of St Catherine of Siena ( 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1899 ); Christian Schools and Scholars ( 1867 ); The Knights of St John ( 1858 ); Songs in the Night and Other Poems ( 1876 ); and the Three Chancellors ( 1859 ), a sketch of the lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.

The text of Proposition 209 was drafted by Cal State anthropology professor Glynn Custred and California Association of Scholars executive director Thomas Wood.

Scholars such as Thomas Stephens have concluded that this is a mistake, and that the intended person was someone else.

Scholars such as Thomas Stephens have concluded that this is a mistake, and that the intended person was someone else.

Weigel lived in Seattle, serving as Assistant Professor of Theology and Assistant Dean of Studies at the St. Thomas the Apostle Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, and Scholar-in-Residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, before returning to Washington, D. C. as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Critics, such as the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society ( TJHS ) Scholars Commission ( 2001 ), have argued against the TJF report.